I like how in the link Lyle provided they said that it is a 'marketing
term'. In other words.... it is a new name for the same stuff so they can
charge more!
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net>wrote:

> From: Michael Havens
> >>  http://tinyurl.com/qbdgqs8
> > "Cumulus, which is building a Linux operating system for switches
> > that use merchant silicon, ...."
> >
> > What is 'merchant silicon'?
>
> Hardware (embedded or regular x86) that can be bought in large quantities
> off-the-shelf.
>
> A Grumpy Old Sysadmin wrote this in the Monastery on 2007-01-27:
> ----------
> A commodity PC (P3 vintage) running quagga on Linux easily out-performs
> the specialist routing hardware in a 7000 series for ethernet to
> ethernet routing (full BGP table). I had to jury rig a temporary router
> to cover for blown PSUs on said Cisco when a certain data centre
> overheated, and was greatly enlightened.
> ----------
>
> ...everything old is new again, eh?
>
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> Matt G / Dances With Crows
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